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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/laigle-et-la-corneille.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 2, Fable 7</span><span class="fp-text">LES DEUX MULETS ET LES VOLEURS</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber II, Fabula VII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">MULI DUO ET <span class="fp-correction" title="VECTORES  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">LATRONES</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="LATRONES  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">VECTORES</span></span></span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Deux Mulets cheminaient lourdement chargés,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'un portait l'argent du fisc dans ses paniers,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'autre des sacs gonflés d'orge.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le premier, fier de son fardeau, marche la tête haute,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et fait fièrement sonner sa sonnette ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">son compagnon le suit d'un pas tranquille et modeste.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Soudain des voleurs sortent d'une embuscade,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et dans la lutte, massacrent le premier Mulet</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">volent l'argent et dédaignent l'orge.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le Mulet pillé déplorait son infortune ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'autre lui dit&nbsp;: «&nbsp;ils m'ont méprisé, et je m'en réjouis ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car je n'ai rien perdu, et n'ai point de blessure.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Muli gravati sarcinis ibant duo ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">unus ferebat fiscos cum <span class="fp-correction" title="peccunia  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">pecunia</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="pecunia  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">peccunia</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">alter tumentes multo saccos hordeo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ille onere dives celsa cervice eminens</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">clarumque collo jactans tintinnabulum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">comes quieto sequitur et placido gradu.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Subito latrones ex insidiis advolant</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">interque caedem ferro mulum <span class="fp-correction" title="trucidant  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">sauciant</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="sauciant  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">trucidant</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">diripiunt nummos, neclegunt vile hordeum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Spoliatus igitur casus cum fleret suos&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Equidem, inquit alter, me contemtum gaudeo ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nam nil amisi, nec sum <span class="fp-correction" title="lesus  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">laesus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="laesus  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">lesus</span></span> vulnere.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette fable prouve que l'obscurité, protège ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tandis que les richesses exposent au danger.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc argumento tuta est hominum tenuitas ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">magnae periculo sunt opes obnoxiae.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/laigle-et-la-corneille.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Deux_Mulets">Les deux Mulets</a></div>
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